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Abul Azad is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and leads CINT’s Laboratory for Ultrafast Materials and Optical Science (LUMOS). Azad conducts research at the intersection of electromagnetic materials, metamaterials, and ultrafast optical science. Azad's work focuses on engineering light-matter interactions across a wide spectral range, from microwave and terahertz to infrared and extreme ultraviolet, using artificially structured materials and metasurfaces. His research has contributed to advances in nonreciprocal photonics, spatiotemporal metasurfaces, and ultrafast spectroscopy, with applications in next-generation sensing, imaging, and electromagnetic wave control.

Expertise

• Functional metamaterials and nanophotonics
• Ultrafast optics
• Terahertz science and technology
• Quantum sensing/imaging
• Applied electromagnetics

Capabilities/Facilities

• The LUMOS facility is equipped with ultrafast laser systems covering a broad spectral range that spans the far-infrared to the soft X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. These systems enable a multitude of ultrafast spectroscopic and imaging experiments, including optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy, high harmonic generation extreme ultraviolet spectroscopies, and scanning probe imaging and spectroscopies. LUMOS works closely with CINT to study and develop novel materials for a wide range of applications.

Education

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University

Awards

• Award of Excellence, Defense Program, 2021
• Distinguished Performance Award, Los Alamos National Lab, 2020
• Fellow, Optical Society, 2019